503 Forum Posts by "Bit-Master"
Just your crappy way to create self-righteousness and feel above everyone else. Join the vegetarians vegans, religious-fanatics, professional critics, PETA, vocabulary-buffs that use bigger words no one else uses just to "outwit them", expensive shoppers, Hot Topic shoppers, extreme dieters, and all the other stuck-up jerks that HAVE to have something that puts them one level above everyone else. You're no different than any of these people if you think you're better than anyone simply because you didn't shove your penis somewhere. I can't respect someone who does something just to brag about it.
I'm using SX 3, I'm a retard with the program, and I've spent 3 hours failing to solve this problem.
When I try to export my file as an audio mixdown, the file I get is just a long bunch of silence. I've tried the .wav options and the mp3 option, nothing.
I made the file importing a midi file, there are drums, bass, and some echo effect. All stuff it came with. I did a small amount of editing of the volumes and drum notes. Idk if I might've accidentally turned something off, or forgot to turn something on, or what, but that's all I know. That's all I've done.
Any advice helps. Thank you.
Thank you guys. Looks like I'm working on Mech Slayer right now, I got the kick in the butt I needed to get started. Thanks for your opinions.
In short, I have many good ideas for flash movies, but I've been giving up after a month on each of them so far. No motivation, never getting what I envisioned or just forgetting what I wanted out of it in the first place. So I decided to see what everyone thought of the ideas I have right now and see which I should try to do:
Doom Tribute
- Tribute to the classic Doom games, (I and II), presenting some of the most memorable levels. All a music video featuring "Mein Teil" by Rammstein (for the Doom I levels) and "Teurastaja" by Turmion Kätilöt (for the Doom II levels).
- I have some nice choreography in mind to go with the music, but that's all I have coming for it.
Doom 3 Short
- This one's for humor. Two guys are guarding a hallway and stupidity and unnecessary violence will happen. It'd be pretty good, imo, but it's a little confusing to put together.
Mac n' Cheese short 1
- I made a pilot short a while ago, changed up my style, and I want to make another short making fun of the "Pull my finger!" joke. Would be at most a minute long. Nothin' but laughs for this one.
Mac n' Cheese episode 1
- I made a different version a LOOOOOONG time ago. It was my first drawn flash. I'm deciding to remake it so I won't be embarrassed with such crap. Adding better jokes (and graphics). This one I'll do no matter what, but something is making that hard to do right now.
Mech Slayer
- This would be with a completely original character and storyline. Another music video, featuring "Verta ja Lihaa" by Turmion Kätilöt. This one sets a dude in a jail cell stealing a pair of sais (sounds like "size") and breaking out only to fight an onslaught of weird machines. He'd end up using the other mech's weapons to his own advantage in some parts.
- I'll be trying to keep it as physically realistic as possible (despite time warps and lasers biggrin.gif) and not actually showing any blood while still making it very violent and entertaining.
- I also have ideas for a sequel, this one with blood, featuring "Kirosana" by Turmion Kätilöt (again =P). That'd have the same guy and the main antagonist fighting while escaping huge, explosive, collapsing building. This sequel would end the story, though, so I would not be continuing it afterwards.
How to Cook a Hot Dog
- A sketchy short, featuring Geo and Tiffa, two of the main characters and siblings in my Mac n' Cheese series. This has an experimental coloring style, which is literally just "colorful" line art. It'd have everything crazy that could happen while making microwaveable hot dogs.
Sonic Stories
- I would definitely declare this one the last Sonic-related flash I would make. It'd be making fun of Adventures 1 and 2, it's a little retarded (humor-wise), and, to me, has some old, overused jokes, but I can always improve stuff here and there.
Something New
- Give me a topic to cover and I'll work from it, a general storyline idea and I'll add detail to it, something fresh I could do and I'll make it even fresher.
In my opinion, I should stick to the original character ones and not fan-based animations. Other people could disagree. I also think I should go for humor first, but still others could disagree. I started doing flash because I love getting the feedback (don't want awards and crap like that, just the knowledge that many people enjoyed it), so the best way to do that is ask around and see what would give me the most feedback. Please give me a good, strong opinion, I've been draggin' my lazy butt for the past year, just ask anyone who knows me. *ends extremely long post*
It's a type of cake.
Rumor has it that it's actually a blood-engorged mayonnaise cannon, but I doubt it. Mayonnaise can't be shot from a cannon.
They say there isn't anything you can do about stuff like this, but I disagree. I know exactly what Nameless is talkin' about. I've seen that monkey bein' an a-hole. He's too full of himself to be on the net.
I think it's for the same reason some people continue to make flash movies. To get known and to please other people. Extremely hard work for nothing but that.
If you skip the loading screen you might as well not even have one. *rolls eyes* My connection has failed when I streamed it at 75%, so just forget it. Just let the movie load and learn a little patience. Do something productive while you wait. That's what I do. Sorry, but I've been bothered by more than one person who is like this.
At 6/25/06 06:05 AM, Khuskan wrote: stuff
Wow... that means someone mis-informed me. Oh well. Thanks for letting me know, though.
At 6/25/06 09:51 PM, six-pac wrote: i use a program called "fruity loops"
Hmm... How well does it work? And who made it?
I posted a topic a while ago about making songs instrumental. Someone suggested using Sound Forge, so I downloaded a trial and tried to use it to remove the vocals. I looked in the help menu and searched the topics and found nothing, do I decided to ask here. Anyone know how?
Thanx in advance.
Ok, give this guy a break. I think he got the idea.
Alright, so first off, DON'T ask for ANY materials from anybody until you earn their trust. Besides, it wouldn't do ANY good without first knowing what it all means. I learned flash actually by just using the crappy help menu and making stuff happen. Eventually I made my first full movie (which got blammed :P) and keep improving. First, just use the tutorials as people have said, and I say that the first 3 things you should learn how to do are:
1. Tweens
2. Using most of the drawing tools
3. Make a button work
1. The tweens will start you off on animation. Soon, you'll learn about frame by frame, and making faster tweens, and mixing it together. This will help you make everything move.
2. The tools in the tool bar are all vector-based drawing tools. The fills and lines are separated, and while lines only have 2 dimension, fills have 2, and are able to be shaped a lot easier. Learn about how to use these tools will give you skills with drawing. This will make everything more than a bunch of circles and blobs.
3. The simple piece of actionscript placed on a button symbol:
on (mouse action){
action(blah);
}
Will make something happen when the mouse does something to the button.
you can have
on (press)
on (release)
on (rollover)
etc.
And it'll react accordingly with whatever action you put underneath
gotoAndPlay(#, #);
gotoAndStop(#, #);
play();
stop();
etc.
These are actions that can also be used on their own to happen without any button. On the first frame of a movie, put the stop code, and then put an on (press) reaction to make it play on the button. It's easy and flexible. This will lead to learning about creative problem solving (lol! (don't ask)), professional movie control, and after a LONG while games. This will help you make stuff react and happen in your movies.
Let's see, moving, looking good, and reacting. The only other thing neccessary to learn is sound control. Just go to the properties bar and put sounds where ever you need to and experiment with the qualities and formats n' stuff. And if you think you'll do SO great without any sound, think again. If you can find me ONE completely silent movie in the top 2 or 3 hundred movies here, show me and I'll take back what I just said.
Anyway, that's everything I think you'd need to know to learn flash, just go searching around to learn that stuff and once you do, you can improve on your own. I hope this post has been helpful for you.
Wow. Someone doesn't pay full attention. This guy is talking about Director, which is VERY different from Flash. I really don't know the answer, but Director MX is at least the 2nd newest of THAT program. If you're talking about just Macromedia programs in general, then I take back what I said in the beginning.
At 3/4/06 06:20 PM, Traced wrote: There are 10 types of people: Those who understand binary and those who don't.
Unlike most people who say this, I acually understand it.
Ha! I get it. ^_^
Heh, funny. I've been lookin' for some tutorials on that stuff too. ^^ Two for one! Also, whoever said that just plain drawing will help is right. I'm still not too good with backgrounds, but I've gotten a little better because I'm always drawing.
At 1/31/06 04:13 AM, RadRacer wrote: thats why this site is perfect for you, most of the songs on here DON'T have lyrics, and theyre all available for you to download and use in your flash movies, infact their suposedly uploaded to the audio portal for that reason
I see what you mean, but I had some GREAT scripts to go with songs like "Zwitter" by Rammstein and "4 Kaskya" by Turmion Katilot and then I found out the translations of the lyrics and I was stunned. Of course, I realize that that stuff is typical with rock (especially heavy metal and hard rock). I couldn't find anything I needed here (I know what you're talking about, and I'm using a bunch of songs from the portal in an upcoming movie. I tried my hardest to solve this problem on my own). Thanx anyway.
At 1/31/06 04:10 AM, TheGuest wrote: Sorry guy, if you can find someone that can do that.. they are a god... you cannot take vocals out of a sond. Plain and simple. Now you can go to various download programs and look up "instrumentals (name of song)". Alot of hip hop is posted without vocals.. but rock is harder to find. Good luck to you
I'd prefer to avoid download programs, but I'll see what I can do. Thanx for the support, man. *thumbs up* ^^
Are there any programs that can remove the vocals of a song?
I searched the topics and got no answers, so don't get all ticked off at me for asking.
Reason: I'd rather not have a fight scene in my flashes where the band is screaming about sex or have a sad scene where they whisper about it.
If there isn't a program that can do that automatically, then I'll have to try to reconstruct the songs from scratch. I'm not a musician, I'm an animator. There are those who do both, but not me, which is why I ask for something that can do the trick.
Thanx in advance. (I'll probably thank you again later, but still)
I show my family and friends all of my flashes. There are at least a dozen really crappy ones and I only have two "good" flashes posted. I like to keep my flashes "G" rated unless it's neccessary to put in violence. I have nothing to hide, so why hide it?
At various times people said stuff
My random responses:
*Wow, that Chinese water torture thing sounds harsh, but I don't have near enough time to waste doing that, unless it'll still work if you do it while working...
*Only doing what's worthwhile, hmm... almost everything I want to do is worthwhile, so I guess I better just try to prioritize. That's what someone else mentioned, so... yeah.
*I'm willing to go back to my animation(s) right now, thanx everyone!
At various times people said stuff
Randomized responses:
*Hmm... small goals. That's an idea.
*I hate when you say you've got nothing done for your crew (I'm in a very innactive one, but they still use the forum in my sig once in a while).
*I'm not gonna quit, and almost everything I want to do is a large project.
*Deadlines. That's what will help. I won't force myself to lose too much sleep or quality, but I'll try to set deadlines with consequences of not making.
Thanx everyone for the input!
What's the Chinese water torture thing?
I have a bad habit of starting a flash and not going back to it. I need to know what you guys do to keep going and finish a movie without having a lazy ending if any. I can't even get a 30-second thing done now, so I'm a little worried about it. I can keep focused when I have will power by listening to music, but it's just not helping with the going back and finishing bit. I have a year's animating experience, and I can draw/animate pretty darn well, but I can't keep it up. I usually end up with just a couple tweens and that's it for the endings. I don't want to quit, either, so if you tell me to I'll ignore you.
Thanx in advance. ^^
When I'm drawing on paper, I take a second looking for the undo key every time I make a mistake. I've spent a crapload of time on the computer to get like that. @_@
At 11/24/05 02:55 PM, GooGum wrote: No ones gonna sue unless you make money off it, although theyd prolly do something outside of court to get a cut rather than sue.
Yes! I'm relieved at that.
Only scenario i see a lawsut arising is if your flash gets ton of bad media attention and they wanna show to the public that they dont support you.
That's not good, but I guess that we really can't do anything about that. Making soundboards of just CD music is one thing to avoid, that's all I know.
In short....youre too small to worry about silly things like laws. But itd be nicer if you used music that isnt already popular so that you can promote someone who doesnt already wipe their [arse] with fan-mail.
Haha. That's a funny analogy. I will try to use less well-known music and all, but if it fits the part it plays, then I'm not replacing it.
I don't think that they're gonna bother anyone as long as the music used is not the main feature or something played on its own. Put sound fx over the music so that it can't be recorded and listened to for free. Lol.
Collabs are good for some people, good or bad. If you look at my Frank Anderson movie and then the Sonic Tribute Collab, you'll see how much of an improvement being in a collab has given me. I feel that they're better as a way to share work so that you can focus more on quality over quantity. It's the truly good artists that will figure that out, and this will also push each artist (depends) to work even harder on their work. From what used to be a bunch of sketches traced with vectoring has become pure drawing with my tablet (I had one since long before the Frank Anderson movie).
As for the actual making of collabs, I feel that they are sometimes fun to see when you've got a bunch of well-known (or soon-to-be well-known) artists working together to make somethin awesome. Take the Matrix Has You and its sequal led by Legendary Frog, all fit that category. There's also the Doom Project and several others that were also really good. All of them are put together by people that know what they're doing, as one of the previous people said.
A bad collab is simply the opposite. Put together by not very well known artists that don't know what they're doing. It would also lack the mind-set of lack of compacting your effort into higher quality work. Bad collabs are where pretty much nobody improves and nobody puts more effort than normal in.
There's my two cents. (or dollars)
At 10/28/05 06:46 PM, rEvolution27 wrote: when i'm tweening and i have millions of layers and i want to do an fbf for my character whick only involves the use of one frame for the whole character, that really sucks. Any tips on making smoothe transitions from tween to fbf during a movie?
That's where the skills really comes in. You have to be able to make the tweening and frme-by-frame look like the same thing, so as to add realism, and a way to do that is to skip the fbf parts until the tweening of a section of animation is done. Then you make midpoint frames that are a combination of the previous and next frames. Basicly, you're just making your own type of tweening, where you fill in the middle part.
Here's an example. You have your character facing side-ways (profile). In the ending frame, your character is facing forwards. For the first midpoint, you make the character facing at a diagonal (3/4 view). Then you make another point between the first frame and the first midpoint and do the same for that and between the last midpoint and last frame. Keep doing this until all the frames are filled up and you'll have it look like tweening.
The reason why I am saying make it look tweened is because if you look closely at the There She Is!!! series, it's actually frame-by-frame, but it looks like just really well handled tweening. (If I am not making sense, I apologize, it's hard to think of any good examples).
Hope it helps.
Fbf is more flexible, but motion tweens can get the job done etter for some things. If you look at Rockman Neo by Andrew D., his style is mostly tweened, but he does it in such a way that tweens makes it look better. I don't have any examples of that, but some tweened movies have such contant changing in what's being tweened that it might as well be fbf, like the latest Madness Combat for instance. Fbf is the traditional way, and that I agree with whoever said it's for artistic animations, because it is. I think, though, that more peple should get back into fbf. I'm sick of TV because so many cartoons there are tweened now. B/ Oh well.
At 10/24/05 09:05 PM, dusty_h wrote: And to the guy who mentioned something about making a DVD, this should help you out ALOT.
http://www.verbalstr..m/viewtopic.php?t=18
Good luck.
Thank you SO much! I'm bookmarking this link right now. Thanx again, I'll be taking deeper looks into it.
At 10/24/05 05:39 PM, 2k_rammerizkool wrote: stuff
and anyway, i think theres this program called "swfcombine" that you can get. More stuff
Huh. The program seems very interesting. It may be what I'm looking for because I want to make a full length movie in the .swf file, then convert it to an .avi file (I know how to do that) and put it on a DVD and sell it. Do you know if that will allow you to surpass the normal frame limit?
Okay. Follow this list carefully:
1. Make a new movieclip.
2. Inside the movieclip, put the sound there.
3. Click a frame with the song and go to Properties.
4. Change the tab that says Event and change it to stream.
5. Create frames so that the entire song's waves are on the timeline of the movieclip.
6. Go back to the main stage.
7. Select the movieclip (should be a circle if it's blank) and convert it into another movieclip.
8. Within the new movieclip (you shouldn't see any soundwaves on the timeline), Make the first frame blank and the second with the movieclip that has your music.
9. On the first frame, type: stop(); in the Actionscript bar. Do the same with the second frame.
10. Create a new layer and put your button in it.
11. On the button, type this in the Actionscript bar:
on (press){
nextFrame();
}
12. Make a second keyframe on the layer (should be frame 2 and the same frame as the one with music).
13. On the button in the second frame, change the actionscript to:
on (press){
prevFrame();
}
As you get better, you can edit that to have multiple songs to choose from, just don't go asking about that. You'll learn it yourself. It's simple scripting to learn. If you already know enough, good for you. If not, don't work yourself to death.
You probably have to soften fill edges. This may/may not be what you want to know. First color the qhite inside of the lightsaber the color you want it to glow. Then go to Modify>Shape>Soften Fill Edges and adjust it how you want there. Don't add too many or it'll get too graphic intensive. Finally, once that's done, color the base color white and you're done. You can also make streaks (draw blurs by stretching it out) and follow that same process again.
